Word: press
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...collection of songs. He sings 'Gaudeaumus,' it is true, and 'Lauriger Horatius,' but he has no songs that are French in the sense the song 'Was kommet denn von der Hoh' is German, and 'Upidee' is American. Nor has he secret societies. . . . The students of Paris have no press of their own. College journalism, though not unknown, has proved unsuccessful among them. The most long-lived of these short-lived productions appeared during a few months in 1879. This sheet was entitled Le Quartier Latin: Journal Humoristique, Litteraire et Scientifique, and it promised to be the 'organ of the wants...
...Yale has a good crew her papers take particular pains to make us believe that it is a very poor one. In fact, they are willing to do almost anything to put Harvard off her guard, and to inspire her with an overconfidence. Yale correspondents of the public press, however, usually express the true opinion of the students in regard to their athletic prospects with a great deal of accuracy. From a letter from Yale to the New York Tribune of Feb. 20, we learn that "the boating men of Yale are now content. . . . Yale's boating prospects were never...
...Moses King has in press a little book, entitled "Cambridge in 1882." It contains a great deal of condensed information about the city and the college. It serves the double purpose of being a complete guide to the city and a pleasant little souvenir for strangers and citizens. The price, like the book itself, is small, only ten cents...
...were also informed of the demonstration beforehand which insured a big audience. The game his manager will play to secure an audience in Detroit will probably not be known until after he has come and gone. He does not play the same one in any two places. - [Detroit Free Press...
...WEST TWENTY-THIRD STREET, NEW YORK, Feb. 9. My Dear Oscar Wilde: I read with shame about the behavior of those ruffians at Rochester at your lecture there. When I see such things here in the civilized portion of my country, and read the coarse comments of the Phillistine press, I feel like thanking God that my home lies three thousand miles further on, and in what is called the wilderness. Should you get as far as Oregon in your travels, go to my father's. You will find rest there, and room - as much land as you can encompass...